Plane skids

Plane skids
off runway

YOGYAKARTA: A DC-9 plane belonging to the Merpati Nusantara
Airlines skidded off the runway when it landed at the Adisucipto
Airport here yesterday.

There were no injuries.

The plane, which was carrying 80 passengers and six crew
members from Denpasar, stopped some 35 meters away from the
runway. The aircraft suffered minor damage to the underside of
the cockpit and its front wheel, Antara news agency reported.

Col. Soelaeman, head of Perum Angkasa which administers the
airport, said the authorities were investigating the cause of the
accident. All the wheels were in order at the time of landing as
a slight drizzle fell, he said.

The accident forced the airport to close down and a total of
13 flights between Yogyakarta, Jakarta, Denpasar and Surabaya
were rerouted to Adi Sumarmo Airport in Solo, about 60 kilometers
to the east of Yogyakarta.

Soelaeman said the airport will be opened only to light
aircraft today. (emb)

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Across-Salatiga-college
Students ask rector to leave post
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Students ask rector
to leave post

SALATIGA, Central Java: At least 1,500 students at the crisis-
hit Christian University of Satyawacana announced here yesterday
that they would leave the school if the rector refused to resign.

Rector John JOI Ihalauw has been the target of students and
lecturers since October, when the university sacked Dr. Arief
Budiman, a popular sociologist.

The students and lecturers have repeatedly staged protests,
rallies and sit-ins in sympathy for Arief, a Harvard-educated
sociologist and outspoken critic of the government.

Meanwhile the rector has asked all teachers to make written
statements in which they declare their willingness to continue
their academic activities.

One of the lecturers told The Jakarta Post yesterday that he
had been threatened with dismissal by the rector if he failed to
follow orders.

"This is nothing but an act of terrorism," said the lecturer,
who refused to be identified.

The students, who are members of the Pro-Democracy
organization, have demanded that the Satyawacana foundation
elect a new rector and that old foundation members resign because
they were responsible for the present crisis. (har/tis)

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Across-Palu-midwives
Midwives complain about cut in subsidy
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Midwives complain
about cut in subsidy

PALU, Central Sulawesi: Midwives who regularly receive annual
subsidies from the local administration have complained that the
sums received were far below the figure mentioned in the receipts
they had to sign.

"Some of us received Rp 510,000 and others Rp 580,000.
However, everyone had to sign a receipt declaring they got Rp
750,000," commented several midwives to Antara on Thursday.

The midwives said that there was no information at all about
the mysterious deduction.

Head of the provincial health office Dr. H. Nadiar was quoted
by the news agency as saying Thursday that his office could not
pay the midwives in full because the funds were only allocated to
109 midwives, while their numbers had swelled to nearly 200.

The government subsidizes lodging and operation costs for
midwives.

Asked why they still had to sign receipts of Rp 75,000
(US$32) Nadiar said, "that is in line with the administration's
ruling." (tis)

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Across-BAceh-school
Primary schools are just enough
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Primary schools
are just enough

BANDA ACEH, Aceh: Governor Syamsuddin Mahmud said on Thursday
that he was disappointed by the number of primary school
graduates in his province that refuse to pursue their studies.

He said that according to data, only 81 percent of the
graduates of both general and Islamic primary schools were
interested in continuing at the junior high school level.

"This figure is still low. The government doesn't expect the
enrollment numbers to reach 85 percent until the end of the
current five-year development program in March 1999," Syamsuddin
said to Antara.

The governor spoke at the induction of the new head of the
provincial education and culture office. He said that over the
last three years there were 14,000 primary school graduates
annually throughout Indonesia who refused to enroll in general or
Islamic high schools. (tis)

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Across-Pekanbaru-elephants
Tamed elephants get employers
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Tamed elephants
get employers

PEKANBARU Riau: Twenty-one elephants, which have been tamed at
a training center here, have got "foster parents" who will employ
them in various businesses.

The elephants were handed over to the employers in a ceremony
at Muara Fajar village, 20 km west of here on Friday, Antara
reported.

Four of the elephants will be employed at timber processing
plants and in forestry projects while the rest will become new
zoo residents in this province and West Sumatra. (tis)

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Across-Semarang-resettle
More people to leave C. Java
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More people to
leave C. Java

SEMARANG: The province of Central Java will send 7,900
families to transmigration projects on other islands this year,
the head of the provincial transmigration office, Sanyoto, said
here Thursday.

He said that the program is a part of the government plan to
improve welfare of the people and reduce the population density
in this province.

Sanyoto said the provincial administration will continue with
the campaign to encourage the people to take part in the
government-sponsored projects or voluntarily move to islands
outside Java.

He said the campaign involves training in the fields of
agriculture and health.

According to Sanyoto more than 15,000 had said that they
wanted to move within this year to other islands, mostly to Irian
Jaya, for a better life. (tis)

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Across-Bekasi-corruption
Village chief accused of corruption
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Village chief
accused of corruption

BEKASI, West Java: The people of Sriamar village, Tambun, have
accused their village chief of manipulating the development fund.

The fund is part of the government program to develop backward
villages and Sriamar had been promised Rp 20 million (US$9,000).

The fund includes aid for less priveleged members of society
and for those active in small businesses.

Fourteen leading Sriamarese have registered complaints with
the minister of home affairs in Jakarta, the West Java governor
in Bandung and the Bekasi regent over the unauthorized subsidy
cut they received.

Meanwhile some vegetable vendors, two-wheeled taxi drivers and
food stall operators said they had not received a cent from the
village authorities although they were very sure that their
names were on the recipient lists.

The village authorities have distributed Rp 100,000 to each of
the poor people who were said deserve the subsidy.

A chicken vendor said she had received the aid but the that
sum had been less than Rp 100,000. She said she had no idea why
it had been cut. (tis)